Xu Dingchen only glanced at the tree and felt his scalp numb and his whole body was cold, and his hands and feet couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Even though he had seen many bandit corpses, the scene in front of him was really terrifying.

The trees were covered with hideous and terrifying heads.

All the officials of the three departments of Shanxi have arrived. Du Yingtang, the commander of the commander, had his face turned pale and could not say a word.

He recognized some of the heads on the tree, one of which was the head of Lu Zhongwei, the assistant commander of the commander.

Others include the small officials of the Shanxi Dusi, as well as the private soldiers of the commander-in-chief Dou Dekang, Wei Shijie and several other commanders.

A few days ago, Dou Dekang and Wei Shijie secretly sent Lu Zhongwei to the Qianhu Institution in Ninghua without hiding it. He knew about it at that time, and he was just pretending to be deaf and dumb.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhongwei and others' heads were actually hanging on the tree in the northwest of Taiyuan City.

The northwest direction of Taiyuan is Loufan.

Dou Dekang, Wei Shijie and others came late. When they saw the heads on the tree, Wei Shijie was so scared that he fell off his horse on the spot. Dou Dekang was also so shocked that his scalp was numb and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"It was him who did it, and the one named Qin must have done it."

After finally coming to his senses, Dou Dekang gritted his teeth and said word by word.

Xu Dingchen looked back at him and when he withdrew his gaze, he swept over Du Yingtang's face intentionally or unintentionally.

Du Yingtang turned around and asked, "Is there any evidence?"

Dou Dekang said: "Mr. Du, the officials just sent Lu Zhongwei to the Qianhu Station in Ninghua a few days ago. Now he is dead. Who else can I do if Qin Chuan is not doing it?"

"Why did you send Lu Zhongwei to Ninghua Institute?"

"In order to... Qin Chuan just took office, the subordinate officials sent Lu Zhongwei to help him sort out the military rations and military preparations."

Du Yingtang didn't ask further because he had asked what he should have asked.

Xu Dingchen suddenly coughed lightly and said, "This matter is very important, so it is better to find out the truth carefully. Du Yingtang, I ordered you and the Censor Miao Wanzhong to go to Ninghua Institute to investigate this matter. Please find out the truth."

"yes."

Du Yingtang held his fists and took the order, then turned his horse back to Taiyuan City to mobilize the troops.

Wei Shijie got up from the ground, wiped a cold sweat and said, "Mr. Xu, this must have been done by Qin Chuan. The thief who robbed the family, kidnapped and blackmailed the money and grain he used to make private artillery and fire guns, and recruited soldiers and horses. These are all ironclad evidence of the rebellion. Only he would drive out such a great rebellious thing."

"Mr. Xu, Lord Du, immediately mobilize troops and horses to kill Loufan to eliminate the thief's den, and bring the thief to justice."

Xu Dingchen coughed lightly: "This matter is too much involved. If there is no conclusive evidence, you should not make a conclusion. Let's investigate it first."

"Mr. Xu..."

Du Yingtang, who had not walked far, suddenly turned around and said with a gloomy face: "Do you think this is not big enough?"

"Mr. Du..."

Wei Shijie wanted to say that Dou Dekang forced him, and then he shut his mouth obediently.

"Well, let's take off all the heads first."

Xu Dingchen said something unceremoniously, then turned his horse's head and headed towards Taiyuan.

After watching them leave, Dou Dekang narrowed his eyes and whispered: "Mr. Wei, go and have a conversation with your colleagues. Let me write a letter to the court to send troops. The Qin surname will not live for a few days."

"good."

...

The news of people hanging on the heads was found outside the city, which soon spread throughout Taiyuan City. The city suddenly became an uproar, and people rushed out of the city to look at the head tree that was said to be extremely terrifying.

Not long after, the identity of the deceased was revealed. It was Lu Zhongwei, the commander-in-chief of the Shanxi Commander Command, and there were 300 private soldiers. It is said that among them were the commander-in-chief Dou Daren and Lord Wei, as well as the other commander-in-chiefs, and several officials from their families.

Some people say that they had occupied the military fields of Ninghua Institute before, but after Lou Fan's surname was a thousand households in Ninghua Institute, he took back all the military fields.

Of course these adults were not convinced. A small fifth-rank thousand household, who gave him the courage to grab the land of a second-rank third-rank official?

So, these adults sent Lu Zhongwei as representatives to lead the 300 private soldiers and several managers from each family to go straight to Ninghua Institute.

As a result, just a few days later, their heads were hung outside Taiyuan City.

Obviously, the Qin surnamed did this.

This incident spread from Taiyuan to Shanxi at a very fast speed. People gathered in restaurants and tea shops to discuss. Some bold storytellers began to make up random things and talked about it with added fuel to the fire, saying "people slaughtered trees, and all officials enjoyed the cool air."

At the same time, the two commanders and commanders of the Shanxi commanders, the three commanders and the right governor, the right governor, the left-hand governor, the deputy envoy, the deputy envoy, the assistant governor, the Taiyuan prefect, the Tongzhi, the Tongzhi, etc., as well as many generals and officials from Xuanda began to write letters to impeach Qinchuan, the thousand households in Ninghua, slaughtered Shangguan, recruited soldiers and horses, privately cast artillery, and rebelled in a similar way, asking the court to convict Qinchuan and sent troops to eliminate the rebels.

Before the news reached the capital, the capital had already been undercurrents because Qian Longxi and Yuan Chong-->>

The Donglin Party, which gradually declined, became active again, and wrote letters to impeach the Liao Fu Party and the eunuch Party not only embezzled Liao Fu, but also colluded with the enemy to sell the country.

The Liao Sheng Party, the eunuch Party, the Chu Party and other parties began to join forces to defend themselves, and they all wrote letters to defend themselves, and criticized the Donglin Party for taking the opportunity to falsely accuse the court of appointing officials, hoping to take this opportunity to eliminate dissidents and control the government.

The attack on Qinchuan of Loufan and the two hundred Jiannu heads soon turned into a large-scale party struggle farce.

The Jin Party, which was in a slump after Zhang Siwei's death, also began to become active, following the Liao Sheng Party and the eunuch Party to attack the Donglin Party.

Generals and officials from the three major places of Jin Xuan also wrote letters to defend themselves, and even Chen Qiyu, who was far away in Yansui, wrote letters to complain for the generals and officials from the three places to complain.

At the court meeting on February 15th, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, angrily accused Wen Tiren and Zhang Yixian of colluding with each other, in front of Zhu Youjian and civil and military officials, tortured and even instructed the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort to join forces with the enemy and stolen the country.

Wen Tiren refuted the other party on the spot. After a few words of contention, Xue Guoguan, the young minister of Taichang Temple, jumped out and pointed at Bi Ziyan's nose and scolded him not only to withhold Xuan Da's military pay, but also to corrupt the salary of the vassal kings such as King Jin. Now he still dares.

Bi Ziyan was so angry that his hands and feet were trembling. He had been slapped by Zhang Yixian everywhere in the Ministry of Revenue, and he had already become angry.

Xue Guoguan's angry scolding made him angry and punched him with a trembling punch, which made Xue Guoguan's nose flow in blood.

Of course Xue Guoguan was so angry that he rushed forward and fought.

Wen Tiren pretended to come over and took the opportunity to hit Bi Ziyan.

Now it was completely in chaos. Several Donglin Party members rushed over and beat Wen Tiren and Xue Guoguan.

Several censors in charge of the inspection rushed over and wrote quickly on the small notebook with their brushes.

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Zhou Yanru, remained as if he was as moving as a mountain, and only watched coldly.

Xu Guangqi, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, sighed continuously.

Zhu Youjian on the imperial throne was so angry that his face turned pale. He stood up and cursed. The Jinyiwei, who was responsible for maintaining order in the dynasty, rushed over and pulled him away, and then he beat several officials of the dynasty who were beaten to the bruised face.

Zhu Youjian cursed on the Danban for a while, then turned his face away with a blue look.

Since Yuan Chonghuan was convicted of death, Qian Longxi was sentenced to death and then sent to guard the border, Huang Daozhou was deposed as a citizen, the Donglin Party has no longer been glorious again, and today's battle has also been clearly at a disadvantage.

Of course, this matter is not over yet.

As soon as Zhu Youjian returned to the Ganqing Palace, Zhang Yixian and Wang Dehua rushed over and shouted for justice with tears in his mouth, saying that when they controlled the Beijing camp because they were the financial power of the two ministries of the Household and Works of Zhu Youjian, they offended many villains for their business and aroused their jealousy and wanted to take the opportunity to suppress them.

Gao Qiqian, who had just recovered Denglai, hurriedly wrote a letter to excuse Zhang Yixian and others.

After Zhu Youjian killed Wei Zhongxian, he always trusted the eunuchs he promoted. Zhang Yixian had been impeached several times, but he still had the power to govern the financial position, which shows Zhu Youjian's trust in him.

This time, Zhang Yixian and Wang Dehua's crying made a difference.

Just as the cabinet chief Zhou Yanru suddenly wrote a letter to personally expose his in-laws, Feng Quan, who was stripped of his family and was demoted to the people because of the Wei Zhongxian case, said that Feng Quan's nephew Feng Yuanfeng had several shops and warehouses in Zhangjiakou Fort, and stocked up on grain, ironware, etc., and sold them to Donglu who pretended to be Mongolian people at high prices. The culprit in this case of collaboration with the enemy is likely to be Feng Quan's nephew.

After reading Zhou Yanru's memorial, Zhu Youjian was furious and slapped the table on the spot, ordering people to thoroughly investigate Feng Quan and Feng Yuanfeng.

At this point, the case still did not stop.

The Donglin Party members continued to attack Wen Tiren, Zhang Yixian, Wang Dehua and others, and even pulled Zhou Yanru in because the guy's daughter married Feng Quan's second son, and this guy has always protected his shortcomings. Since he became the chief minister, his brother and several relatives have also become high-ranking officials.

With Zhou Yanru's personality, it seems extraordinary to expose his in-laws and is inevitably suspicious.

Just as countless memorials flew towards Zhu Youjian, an urgent report from Shanxi shocked Zhu Youjian and all civil and military officials.

Lu Zhongwei, the assistant commander of Shanxi, took three hundred soldiers to the Ninghua Thousand Household Office. A few days later, the heads of these people were hung outside Taiyuan City.

Immediately afterwards, memorials from Shanxi, Xuanzhen and Datong Town flew like snowflakes, filling Chongzhen's imperial case.

The content is roughly the same: Qin Chuan of Ninghua was arbitrarily killed Shangguan Lu Zhongwei and 300 soldiers, hung his head outside Taiyuan City, and recruited soldiers and horses with the money and grain obtained from kidnapping, trained troops, and cast artillery privately, which was no different from treason, and asked the court to send troops to eliminate the rebels.

After reading only a few memorials, Zhu Youjian overturned the imperial case to the ground and scolded several rebels.

Soon, Zhu Youjian summoned Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, as well as the Minister of War Zhang Fengyi, and planned to send troops to wipe out Qin Chuan.

Of course, the two cabinet masters did not object. Zhang Fengyi was from Daizhou, Shanxi and had a close relationship with the Shanxi officialdom and Shanxi merchants, so naturally he did not object.

On the second day, the eunuch Wang Dehua led dozens of cavalry out of the capital and headed straight for Datong Town.

Two other messengers traveled day and night to Taiyuan and Pingyang Prefecture respectively, and passed an order to Shanxi Governor Xu Dingchen and Xuanda Governor Zhang Zongheng.

All the civil and military officials in the court were stunned by the sudden outbreak of the human case.
Chapter completed!